Location: Escanaba Trough, southern Gorda Ridge, northeast Pacific Ocean
Priority: 2
Position: 41°00'N, 127°29'W
Water Depth: 3170 m
Sediment Thickness: 500 m
Total Penetration: 520 mbsf
Seismic Coverage: Single-channel, Tully, 89-04, Line 4
Objectives: Determine structure and uplift history of a large, uplifted sediment hill (Southwest Hill) associated with massive sulfide formation
Drilling Program: APC/XCB
Logging and Downhole Operations: None
Nature of Rock Anticipated: Hydrothermally altered hemipelagic and turbiditic sediment, hydrothermally altered basalt
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